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Three piece reclining figure, no 1 door Henry Moore, 1961-62

 

 

 

 

 

 

Menselijk landschap

 

In 1959 begon Moore zijn figuren op te splitsen in delen, hij wekt de suggestie dat het niet alleen om een figuur gaat, maar ook om een landschap. De ruwe en bonkige oppervlakken doet denken aan kliffen en rotspartijen. Moore zag in de beelden een amalgaam van het menselijk lichaam en steenformaties.

 

“'I realised what an advantage a separated two-piece composition could have in relating figures to landscape. Knees and breasts are mountains. Once these two parts become separated you don't expect it to be a naturalistic figure: therefore you can justifiably make it like a landscape or a rock.

 

Met de figuur in drie delen werkte Moore het concept verder uit. Moore: “The middle piece was suggestedby a vertebra – of which I don’t know what animal it was – that I found in the garden. And the connection of one piece to another is the kind of connection that a backbone will have with one section through to the next section. But they‘ve been separated.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moore: “Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me its best setting and complement is nature. I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.”

 

 

 


 

Henry Moore (1898-1986)

 

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Foto’s: juli 2016

 

 

 

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